How much space would this take? (digitally)

[crakddx]

So I'm planning too upgrade the ssd in acomputer frrom 128gb to 1tb. I am going to be using the old ssd to store gamme footage aand photos. I was wowndering, how much space a one hour 1080p video would use. It would be using the windows 10/11 compressor, wiith the pre installed video app. All ssd are sata.

[Levent]

16 minutes ago, Mr-G-Man said:

windows 10/11 compressor

the what? A video is made out of:

• Video resolution
• Length
• Bitrate?
• FPS?
  • VFR?
  • CFR?
• Color space?
• Bit depth?
• Video codec?
• Audio bitrate?
• Audio channel?
• Audio codec?
• Audio sample rate?

[crakddx]

@Levent
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resolution would be 1080p
length would be an hour
nevery really understood what bitrate was, I get a 50+ mbps upload speed, 100+ download
fps would be 60
no idea about rhe rest lol

[Kilrah]

Bitrate is literally "how much space it takes per second" so without knowing what bitrate your encoder is set at there's no way to tell, and once you know you can calculate easily.

[mariushm]

A 1 TB SSD will have around 930 GB of usable disk space.

 

The video bitrate is in megabits  ... there's 8 megabits in 1 MB, so you can just divide by 8 and get a rough idea about how much disk space a video would use. 

 

Most HD cameras (handycams etc) will record 1080p content at 20-25 mbps. maybe a bit more if you configure to record 60fps. So that's around 3.5 MB per second or around 200 MB per minute or around 12.6 GB per hour. 

 

A GoPro does 45-60 mbps when recording 1080p. 

 

Smartphone cameras will typically use high bitrate because it uses less cpu, less battery to record... so expect 40-60 mbps for 1080p 60 fps. or around 4-6 MB/s 

 

If you do game capture using OBS, then if you want very high quality for editing after you stop playing, then you'd be looking at 50-100 mbps, or around 6-12 MB/s (depends on how much motion and stuff happens in a game)

 

If you mean downloaded content, like movies from torrents, then you're looking at 3-4 GB for a 720p movie, maybe 6-15 GB for a 1080p movie (depends on length and other things like how many audio tracks, subtitles etc)